The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will continue to cover its current labelling responsibilities, such as welfare, marketing standards and eco labelling. It will also now deal with labelling where this does not relate to food safety or nutrition. This includes:

• general lead on food labelling legislation and relevant EU negotiations

• lead on the EU Food Information proposal

• country of origin labelling

• food composition standards and labelling such as fruit juice and fruit nectars, jams and bottled water

• technical advice on compositional standards for food without specific legislation, such as soft drinks and cereal products